Allina News

[Pioneer Press, Nov. 22, 2011] Allina’s United Hospital in St. Paul is planning to spend $18.5 million to renovate operating rooms and expand the overall size of its surgery center. With the project, the total number of ORs in service at United will decrease slightly from 20 to 18. But each operating room will get [...]

[Pioneer Press, Nov. 17, 2011] The current president of Allina’s Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids has been named the new president of United Hospital in St. Paul, also an Allina Hospital. Tom O’Connor is scheduled to take the job at United Hospital effective Jan. 2. Located in the West Seventh neighborhood of St. Paul, United [...]

[KMSP Fox9, Oct. 6, 2011] The same group that claimed women don’t need mammograms is now questioning the  efficacy of test that revolutionized the detection and treatment of prostate cancer;  however, Dr. Pete Sershon, who specializes in treating prostate cancer at United Hospital, isn’t buying it. “When a man has a PSA blood test year to [...]

[Pioneer Press, August 18, 2011] Chris Evans wants to qualify for a health plan with a lower deductible next year. So the St. Paul man spent five minutes this week with a toothbrush-shaped swab tucked between his cheek and gums as part of a tobacco-use screening test at United Hospital. This year, Allina joins a [...]

[KARE11, Aug. 4, 2011] A new University of Washington study says it’s harder to eat a nutritious diet if you’re on a low income as the number of families using food stamps is growing. Alicia Stewart, a clinical dietician with Allina’s United Hospital in St. Paul, toured a local supermarket and talked with KARE11′s Boua [...]

[KMSP Fox 9, Aug. 3, 2011] A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report says hospitals can do much more to help breastfeeding moms be successful. From in-hospital support to out-patient programs and information, Allina Hospitals like United in St. Paul are going the extra mile helping breastfeeding moms. United certified lactation consultant Kim Kretschmer talked [...]

[KSTP.com, July 20, 2011] The Allina Hospitals & Clinics system has four top-ranking hospitals in the Twin Cities metro and two hospitals with specialty rankings on the national top 50 list. This is according to the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals. Read the article.

[Fox 9 News, July 7, 2011] Adult obesity rates did not decline in any U.S. state in the last year, and it increased in 16 states according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2011. Minnesota ranks 38th in adult obesity and 48th in child obesity, according to the latest report from the [...]

[KSTP-TV, May 10, 2011] It was a problem for a St. Paul hospital easily solved…what do you do with medical equipment from an old emergency room? United Hospital donated their surplus medical equipment to the Minnetonka-based charity, Hope for the City. In turn, the nonprofit will send it to the largest hospital in east Africa—a [...]

[Pioneer Press, April 20, 2011] As a new generation of emergency rooms opens across the east metro, patients are finding amenities that might remind them more of hotels than hospitals. At United Hospital, there’s a fireplace in the lobby, art on the walls and a commitment to publish waiting times on a website — sort [...]

[WCCO & KMSP, April 15, 2011] Allina’s United Hospital celebrated its new $25 million Peter J. King Emergency Care Center with an open house. An ambulance parade, flyover by a LifeLink ambulance helicopter and tours of the new facility marked the occassion. Watch the stories below.

[Allina Newsroom, April 11, 2011] Allina’s United Hospital will celebrate its new emergency department, the Peter J. King Emergency Care Center, on Friday, April 15, with an open house. The public event is free and open to the public. It starts at 2 p.m. at 333 North Smith Avenue, St. Paul. The event will feature [...]